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Three years ago Sunday, an unidentified assailant gunned down veteran crime
reporter José Armando Rodríguez Carreón in the driveway of his home as his 8-year-old daughter watched.
Amid a climate of violence and impunity in Mexico--where 10 journalists have
been slain since 2008 and no killers convicted in any case--it seems unlikely
that anyone will face prosecution for Rodriguez's murder. Two investigators
working on the journalist's slaying were also shot to death.

Members from around the world of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange met in
Beirut last week. On the second day of our conference, amid discussions of the daily
problems journalists face, we received word of the abduction and murder of Pakistani
investigative journalist Saleem
Shahzad. A day later, the conference buzzed with news of an arrest more
than five years after the murder of iconic Russian journalist Anna
Politkovskaya. As news unfolded in both cases, impunity--a recurring theme
in official meetings and hallway conversations--loudly made its way to the
forefront. And on June 2, IFEX members announced that they would join forces to
globally put an end to journalists' murders and impunity for their killers,
making November 23 the International Day to End Impunity.

Dear President Morales: We are deeply concerned that provisions in Bolivia's new anti-discrimination law threaten to stifle press freedom. We call upon you to see that this law is amended to ensure constitutional safeguards for free expression.